and jim, follow up with you. ohio, the nbc poll has shown five points. and now we have a quinnipiac poll out today showing the president up by five points, at 50%. and if you go into the internals, it seems to me, at least, devastating for mitt romney if this poll is to be believed that, like, 52% of people in ohio think the economy is getting better. only 17% think it is getting worse. i don't know how mitt romney overcomes that in six days. >> reporter: look, you were talking earlier, and i'm with you, there's two ways of looking at this election. you look at it in feel and the intangibles and by the numbers. when you look at just the state of ohio, this is a case where the intangibles, the numbers and the body language from the romney campaign all seems to point to obama is ahead. you can dispute five points. but you don't put up that ad that the romney phones are putting up and trying to pit this argument now if you believe you're ahead in ohio or on your way to being ahead, right? why would you want this to be the final issue felt? you had to flow s